Sadly from what I've been told the Supporters Trust or more accurately the Suporters Trust Board effectively killed the New Hotel End project. By announcing their withdrawal of support for the East Stand development and essentially severing the remaining relationship they had with the club and it's owners they created an environment that realistically no fan led project was likely to succeed in. Particuarly one that the Supporters Trust were backing.
They also never contributed the £900 or covered the whole amount required for the drawings of this fan led project.
Quite sad really that the first tangible supporter led project in years got "shelved" in this way.
I'm not sure who told you what you're spreading on here, but here are some facts.
The New Hotel End project was not a Trust-initiated project. It started without the Trust and there was nothing to prevent it from continuing either with or without Trust involvement. I was asked to be involved and had a couple of phone calls with one of the project leaders but was never asked to do anything. Following a presentation to a board meeting the Trust Board agreed to contribute the money to get the ball rolling towards a vision we could hopefully all get behind (maybe even the owners - imagine that!), but WAS NEVER ASKED TO PAY IT. We would still pay if the project was re-started.
The decision of the project organisers to put it on hold was nothing to do with the Trust or the Trust Board. I personally see no reason why building the vision and progressing with planning could not have continued, but as I say it was not a Trust project and therefore not a decision we were involved with. Even more so given the current poor relationship between the Trust and the owners has been significantly contributed to by their own failure to come up with any visions at all. What better time for supporters to work together?
A very misinformed post.
